New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1887-07-20

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plain to the Interstate commissioners that
the freight per leo pounds on cotton piece
goods from Chicago to Walla Walla is
$4.70, while to Portland, Or, $50 miles
further, it is only $1.20 per 100 pounds.
Richard Cronan, while attempting to
swim across the Niagara river, starting
from the "Maid OF the Mist" landing was
caught in the current and carried down
through the whirlpool rapids. Cronan
came over the falls from Boston a week
ago.
For the Fourth of July celebration Port
land, Oregon performed an unprecedented
feat in the way OF frew orks. It was the IL
Elimination OF the summit OF Mount Hood,
the tallest snow covered peak in Oregon.
IL, 100 feet high.
Private Thomas N. Bateman, az the
Second United States cavalry, shot and
killed First Sergeant Samuel M. Sopher,
OF the same troop, at the Presidio barraks,
San Francisco. The sergeant had repri-
manded Batmane for being intoxicated.
At Glendale, Mont, a brewery was burn
ed and also Peter Schawer, the proprietor,
who was sleeping on the second floor, was
burned to death.
At Lewiston, ILL.,, J. F. Logan, city mar.
shall, was shot and eilled by George WeIde,
who was intoxicated. The murder was
IL d.
! ing Welde are made.
The following pensions have been grant
ed: Observation-Disclosures A.. S. DEVON,
j. Thatcher, Baraboo; w. Struthers, Har-
mony; 8: Ramsey, Reedsburg; T. Linton,
Mount Hope; J. McNaughton, Monterey:
j.. Malloy, Mitchell; A. Cooley, Heart
Brains; J. Tmms, La Crosse; j. Cranie,
Chippewa Falls: J. j. Enhilder, Neillsville;
J. Feight, Hillsboro; G. w. Briggs, Grand
Rapids; J. Williams, Alton. Dakota-W.
forth; A. Small, Fargo; J. w. Todd, Mime
celia. ota-Mother R. P. Carpenter,
| Sank Rapids; original w. Martin, Lake
| City; J. Mahoney, Bloomington; E. Nc.
Grew, Chatfeld; j. Beatty, Anoka; G. L.
Key, St. Peter; J. 4. Berggren, Red Wing;
J. Graham, Mankato; T. Magill, New York
Mills; j. Gray, Frazee City; W. Dean,
Tubbs, Stewartville; c. Stenger, Northfeld.
3. L. Harper, Of the Fidelity National
bank at Cincinnati, now in Jail awaiting
trial, says: He had no idea of any disas-
ter to the bank, and that he bought stock
the day before the closing and only two
days before put $50, 900 in deposit. If the
/ bank examiner had not come there would
have been no trouble. He did not operate
| insecret, and all the directors were respon-
sible.
! Lieut.. Wilcox, convicted OF duplicating
his pay accounts and sentenced to two
years in the state prison, was carried to
soldiers
Some days ago the Manitoba and North
ern Pacific railroad companies were repre-
sented before the railroad commissioners
by Attorney Clough in the matter Of the
proposed reduction OF the passenger tariff
at those two roads to three cents per mile.
Mr.. Gough presented only part OF his testi-
mony az to why the roads should not be
required to make the reduction, and the
hearing in the case will be completed July
/ Ia.
George Trent, alias Frank Vance, alias
/ Gearge Smith, alias f.. N. Conehay, vent
to Chicago. He was good-l Hooking blonde.
twenty seyen years old. His last cogno-
men was Conehay, and under it, being an
expert operator, he obtained q situation
here with the Western Union Telegraph
company. He was arrested by the Pinker-
ton Detective agency and taken to st.
Paul. His offences are forgery, stealing,
i general confidence frauds, &c.
! A Washington special says that the Ben
son. Mimi, land oHicers.in answer to Com
missioner Sparks, who demanded an expla-
nation OF the charge that they had illegal
4 ~ allowed filings on indemnity lands, state
that the charge was absolutely without
ioundation; that application TO enter such
4 lands had been made, but the land officers
would not receive them because they were
railroad lands.
The business for the Fargo land Office
for the quarter ending July is as follows:
Cash sales Of acres, 9,349; fees, $16,575.
Homestead entries. number, 1913; acres,
II 25, 741; fees, 81, 625; commissions, 81 $50;
homestead proofs, 186; acres, 10, $40; lees,
q 50, 23l. Timber entries, 152; acres, 49,
3. 776; fees, $1,000; commission, $611. Tim
Der proofs, 6; acres, $50; commission. $24.
4 Soldiers statements, Z; fees, $3.50; com
mission, So. Total receipts, $22.974.51.
At Galesburg, Ill, the jury in the Jim
McCarroll case returned verdict Of guilty
and fixed the punishment at twelve years
in the penitentiary. McCarroll is the last
OF the celebrated Farmers s. Mechanics
bank robbers to be punished.
Secretary Fairchild dismisses from the
service the head OF : treasury division,
u Oscar ]. Harry who was arrested Tor de
frauding the government by means q
u l.